"Did I read that correctly? Who would actually demo an OS?... they are not exactly the easiest thing to uninstall (maybe that is the rub after the "demo period" ends... for only $99 you can restore your PC to working condition)."
Huh? Since when did Linux cost $99?
I find that fdisk is quite adequate for uninstalling an OS. Besides, you wouldn't keep data on the same partition as your OS anyway.
It always surprised by that Teletext didn't jump on the Internet bandwagon - I would have thought that a Teletext set-top box would have been the next logical progression from what they currently do.
The state owned TV company in NZ (TVNZ) up until very recently (Q4, 2001) used an Apple ][+ or Apple//e to power their Teletext system (a simplex news & info terminal built into most TV's sold in NZ). They've recently upgraded to a Sun Solaris host to provide the same functionality. The reason: they were no longer able to get spare parts and the system did start to become somewhat unreliable.
So while the system may not have been critical, it did provide a public service, produced revenue and worked moderately well - hardware faults excepted.
It wouldn't surprise me that much to hear that other organisations still use older technology to deliver a solution. After all, why fix it unless it's broken?
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This article provides a summary of the documentary (Superhuman: The Future of Medicine, Trauma episode) I saw, which goes into some detail. I'm not a medical person, so I don't pretend to actually know anything about how or why it seems to work.
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I seem to recall a british documentary on the effects of not stopping bleeding. One of the examples used was a british soldier left for dead after one or two of his legs was blown off - the battlefield opinion being that he would bleed to death before medical help could arrive, but subsequent medical opinion was that if he'd ben treated to stop or staunch the bleeding, it would have been fatal. The soldier did however survive, and was interviewed in the documentary.
The other example used was wounded US soldiers in Vietnam having a high mortality rate because medical treatment was often available in a short timeframe, and one of the procedures used was to stop the bleeding.
Rally Trophy isn't bad. The graphics a bit arcadish, but the physics engine is one of the better ones I've seen in a arally game.
My preference is Grand Prix Legends - more of a racing simulator than game. It's quite old (circa 1998) but still has a big community of players for both offline and online racing.
An old work mate of mine and his fiance worked for a year and a half for a mission somewhere in western Africa (I can't recall which country) - him as "the computer guy", providing LAN & telecommunications/internet capability and operational support for the mission and it's staff, and his fiance as a midwife working for a hospital.
They had to pay for everything, but claim it was one of the best experiences of their lives, rewarding, exciting and scary. One of life's great experiences.
Despite the fact that the work they did was for a religious mission, the mission did provide benefits otherwise not available to that part of the world, providing real benefits to the individuals as well as the entire community.
So while my friend did not directly aid (i.e. digging wells, teaching about efficient and sustainable agriculture etc.) the community, he enabled others to, while ensuring that the missions resources were used to maximum benefit.
Hmm, so they've come up with some cool technology, and implemented it as a low-power CPU. Transmeta is in the CPU business, not the HDD/LCD/GFX business.
Give it a few years, the power consumption problems of a portable device might be partially solved by fuel cells, the LCD screens may become more efficient, or replaced by some form of HUD. Solid state mass storage is also becoming avaliable, reducing the power required for storing stuff.
Besides, low power CPU isn't the only cool thing about the Transmeta chips.There's some other nifty sh*t in there too.
Dick Smith in NZ and Dick Smith in Oz sell "Funway" kits and manuals. From what I've seen, they're fairly lame, but might be OK for a beginner. You can make doorbells, audio amplifiers, electronic dice etc.
The company I work for does this occasionally. Usually where we have a SLA in place that requires us to perform a backup or restore within a certain timeframe.
Typically a backup to disk is made in order to get the backup done as fast as possible, then that backup is dumped to tape. Simple restores are quick and relatively easy because the most recent backup is always online and if we have a more serious failure, we can still restore from tape.
XP may not be topping the sales charts at the moment. Microsoft take a long term view for this sort of thing.
Lets not forget that most users (with the obligatory exception of enlighted individuals using a non MS OS) will eventually "upgrade" from their win9x or NT/2000 platform (either as a hardware replacement or OS replacement) to whatever Microsoft is selling, in order to run some piece of essential software.
So yeah - developers might not ship much in the next couple of months, but lets see what it looks like in another 18 -24 months.
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You don't think shovelling shit has relevance to the entertainment industry? You don't watch much TV huh ;-)
"Did I read that correctly? Who would actually demo an OS?... they are not exactly the easiest thing to uninstall (maybe that is the rub after the "demo period" ends... for only $99 you can restore your PC to working condition)."
Huh? Since when did Linux cost $99?
I find that fdisk is quite adequate for uninstalling an OS. Besides, you wouldn't keep data on the same partition as your OS anyway.
This article contains an extremely non-technical article on the port from an Apple ][e to the Solaris based solution. I believe that the UK used to have a similar system - maybe that was powered by a BBC computer?
It always surprised by that Teletext didn't jump on the Internet bandwagon - I would have thought that a Teletext set-top box would have been the next logical progression from what they currently do.
The state owned TV company in NZ (TVNZ) up until very recently (Q4, 2001) used an Apple ][+ or Apple //e to power their Teletext system (a simplex news & info terminal built into most TV's sold in NZ). They've recently upgraded to a Sun Solaris host to provide the same functionality. The reason: they were no longer able to get spare parts and the system did start to become somewhat unreliable.
So while the system may not have been critical, it did provide a public service, produced revenue and worked moderately well - hardware faults excepted.
It wouldn't surprise me that much to hear that other organisations still use older technology to deliver a solution. After all, why fix it unless it's broken?
This article provides a summary of the documentary (Superhuman: The Future of Medicine, Trauma episode) I saw, which goes into some detail. I'm not a medical person, so I don't pretend to actually know anything about how or why it seems to work.
I seem to recall a british documentary on the effects of not stopping bleeding. One of the examples used was a british soldier left for dead after one or two of his legs was blown off - the battlefield opinion being that he would bleed to death before medical help could arrive, but subsequent medical opinion was that if he'd ben treated to stop or staunch the bleeding, it would have been fatal. The soldier did however survive, and was interviewed in the documentary.
The other example used was wounded US soldiers in Vietnam having a high mortality rate because medical treatment was often available in a short timeframe, and one of the procedures used was to stop the bleeding.
Rally Trophy isn't bad. The graphics a bit arcadish, but the physics engine is one of the better ones I've seen in a arally game.
My preference is Grand Prix Legends - more of a racing simulator than game. It's quite old (circa 1998) but still has a big community of players for both offline and online racing.
So cloning will be outlawed in Japan, but we can have catwomen. Here puss puss puss . . . .
An old work mate of mine and his fiance worked for a year and a half for a mission somewhere in western Africa (I can't recall which country) - him as "the computer guy", providing LAN & telecommunications/internet capability and operational support for the mission and it's staff, and his fiance as a midwife working for a hospital.
They had to pay for everything, but claim it was one of the best experiences of their lives, rewarding, exciting and scary. One of life's great experiences.
Despite the fact that the work they did was for a religious mission, the mission did provide benefits otherwise not available to that part of the world, providing real benefits to the individuals as well as the entire community.
So while my friend did not directly aid (i.e. digging wells, teaching about efficient and sustainable agriculture etc.) the community, he enabled others to, while ensuring that the missions resources were used to maximum benefit.
Hmm, so they've come up with some cool technology, and implemented it as a low-power CPU. Transmeta is in the CPU business, not the HDD/LCD/GFX business.
Give it a few years, the power consumption problems of a portable device might be partially solved by fuel cells, the LCD screens may become more efficient, or replaced by some form of HUD. Solid state mass storage is also becoming avaliable, reducing the power required for storing stuff.
Besides, low power CPU isn't the only cool thing about the Transmeta chips.There's some other nifty sh*t in there too.
42. What was the question again?
Dick Smith in NZ and Dick Smith in Oz sell "Funway" kits and manuals. From what I've seen, they're fairly lame, but might be OK for a beginner. You can make doorbells, audio amplifiers, electronic dice etc.
The company I work for does this occasionally. Usually where we have a SLA in place that requires us to perform a backup or restore within a certain timeframe.
Typically a backup to disk is made in order to get the backup done as fast as possible, then that backup is dumped to tape. Simple restores are quick and relatively easy because the most recent backup is always online and if we have a more serious failure, we can still restore from tape.
XP may not be topping the sales charts at the moment. Microsoft take a long term view for this sort of thing.
Lets not forget that most users (with the obligatory exception of enlighted individuals using a non MS OS) will eventually "upgrade" from their win9x or NT/2000 platform (either as a hardware replacement or OS replacement) to whatever Microsoft is selling, in order to run some piece of essential software.
So yeah - developers might not ship much in the next couple of months, but lets see what it looks like in another 18 -24 months.